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Managing inclusion – Shifting paradigms of social justice in the Swedish Upper Secondary School
Transformation in English and Swedish School Systems under the influence of New Public Management.
Springer eBooks, May 3, 2007
European Educational Research Journal, Mar 1, 2006
Research in Comparative and International Education, Jun 1, 2007
EECERA 29th conference "Early Years: Making it Count", 20th August – 23rd August 2019, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece, 2019
European Journal of Higher Education
Debates around internationalisation-at-home (IaH) focus on the benefits accrued to students from ... more Debates around internationalisation-at-home (IaH) focus on the benefits accrued to students from the integration of internationalisation dimensions in their studies, curricular developments and interactions with international students, but, with scant attention to how these vary in different subject areas. In this article, we focus on the disciplinary experiences and framings of internationalisation from the perspectives of students in two Swedish universities. Drawing on 67 interviews with students sampled across different subject areas, we examine how the disciplinary definitions of study objects and pedagogic approaches filter the students’ experiences and shape their views around IaH, and their ambitions for the future. Our findings suggest first, a discipline-specific set of positionings regarding the nature of subject areas as lenses through which internationalisation is understood. Second, the students hold strong views around the contribution of IaH in strengthening the disciplines themselves. In addition, the student voices paint a dynamic picture of internationalisation positions, not always consistent with disciplinary stereotypes.
During the last 40 years, many countries have launched radical reforms of their public education ... more During the last 40 years, many countries have launched radical reforms of their public education systems in a neoliberal direction that emphasises a mixed economy of schooling. The reforms have bee ...
Austerity and the Remaking of European Education, 2019
Education Policy & Social Inequality, 2017
The European Union represents a transnational level of polity where education policies are constr... more The European Union represents a transnational level of polity where education policies are constructed in parallel to those of nation states, and where equality is framed both in legal frameworks a ...
Creative Partnerships aims to change the ways in which children learn and teachers teach, and to ... more Creative Partnerships aims to change the ways in which children learn and teachers teach, and to support whole school change. Our research examines how schools take up the ‘culturaloffer’madebyCreativePartnerships.Inthisarticle,drawingondatafromsnapshot visits to 40 English schools, we suggest that it has made a difference to school culture and to its meaning -making practices. In many of the schools it has also spread beyond one-off projectstohelpteacherschangetheirpedagogicalapproachmoregenerally.Wefoundacon sistent trend across the schools towards cross-curricular and integrated approaches which in some cases had also produced structural shifts in the use of space, time, budgets and promotionpositions.Weraisesomeconcernsaboutthewaysinwhichperformativeregimes inhibit what some schools are able to achieve, but also point to challenges for Creative Partnershipsrelatingtoassessment,knowledge,andunderstandingsaboutsocialjustice.
European Journal of Higher Education, 2023
Debates around internationalisation-at-home (IaH) focus on the benefits accrued to students from ... more Debates around internationalisation-at-home (IaH) focus on the benefits accrued to students from the integration of internationalisation dimensions in their studies, curricular developments and interactions with international students, but, with scant attention to how these vary in different subject areas. In this article, we focus on the disciplinary experiences and framings of internationalisation from the perspectives of students in two Swedish universities. Drawing on 67 interviews with students sampled across different subject areas, we examine how the disciplinary definitions of study objects and pedagogic approaches filter the students’ experiences and shape their views around IaH, and their ambitions for the future. Our findings suggest first, a discipline-specific set of positionings regarding the nature of subject areas as lenses through which internationalisation is understood. Second, the students hold strong views around the contribution of IaH in strengthening the disciplines themselves. In addition, the student voices paint a dynamic picture of internationalisation positions, not always consistent with disciplinary stereotypes.
Det här kapitlet undersöker lärarstudenters upplevelser av så kallad internationalisering på hemm... more Det här kapitlet undersöker lärarstudenters upplevelser av så kallad internationalisering på hemmaplan (IPH) och hur exempelvis interkulturella och internationella dimensioner inlemmas och kommer till uttryck i undervisningen.Den svenska högskolan har en historia av att arbeta proaktivt med internationaliseringsfrågor, men det har ofta kommit att förstås som en fråga om mobilitetoch utbyten av olika slag. På senare tid har även IPH lyfts fram som en alltviktigare internationaliseringsambition för landets lärosäten (SOU 2018:3). Idetta kapitel analyseras intervjuer med 23 studenter från olika program inomlärarutbildningens område. Resultatet visar att även om studenterna resonerarmycket insiktsfullt om såväl interkulturella kompetenser som färdigheter är deinternationella dimensionerna de mött i sin utbildning starkt begränsade. Lärarutbildning som kunskapsfält uppfattas i mångt och mycket som en utbildningorienterad mot den nationella sfären och det påverkar hur studenterna möter de...
Learning as a lever for change : delivering improved care through the activity of General Practic... more Learning as a lever for change : delivering improved care through the activity of General Practice tutors
Acknowledgements Preface 1. Why is it Important? The Story So Far 2. The Nature of the Interdisci... more Acknowledgements Preface 1. Why is it Important? The Story So Far 2. The Nature of the Interdisciplinary Field and its Development 3. A Global Overview: Legacies and Inertias 4. Scale, Space and Place with Reference to the USA and the World of Small States 5. National and International Educational Development 6. Europe: Issues and Comparisons 7. Sub-Saharan Africa: Legacies and Innovations 8. Rising Stars: Brazil, Russia, India and the People's Republic of China (The BRIC States) References Index
Austerity and the Remaking of European Education, 2019
Managing inclusion – Shifting paradigms of social justice in the Swedish Upper Secondary School
Transformation in English and Swedish School Systems under the influence of New Public Management.
Springer eBooks, May 3, 2007
European Educational Research Journal, Mar 1, 2006
Research in Comparative and International Education, Jun 1, 2007
EECERA 29th conference "Early Years: Making it Count", 20th August – 23rd August 2019, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece, 2019
European Journal of Higher Education
Debates around internationalisation-at-home (IaH) focus on the benefits accrued to students from ... more Debates around internationalisation-at-home (IaH) focus on the benefits accrued to students from the integration of internationalisation dimensions in their studies, curricular developments and interactions with international students, but, with scant attention to how these vary in different subject areas. In this article, we focus on the disciplinary experiences and framings of internationalisation from the perspectives of students in two Swedish universities. Drawing on 67 interviews with students sampled across different subject areas, we examine how the disciplinary definitions of study objects and pedagogic approaches filter the students’ experiences and shape their views around IaH, and their ambitions for the future. Our findings suggest first, a discipline-specific set of positionings regarding the nature of subject areas as lenses through which internationalisation is understood. Second, the students hold strong views around the contribution of IaH in strengthening the disciplines themselves. In addition, the student voices paint a dynamic picture of internationalisation positions, not always consistent with disciplinary stereotypes.
During the last 40 years, many countries have launched radical reforms of their public education ... more During the last 40 years, many countries have launched radical reforms of their public education systems in a neoliberal direction that emphasises a mixed economy of schooling. The reforms have bee ...
Austerity and the Remaking of European Education, 2019
Education Policy & Social Inequality, 2017
The European Union represents a transnational level of polity where education policies are constr... more The European Union represents a transnational level of polity where education policies are constructed in parallel to those of nation states, and where equality is framed both in legal frameworks a ...
Creative Partnerships aims to change the ways in which children learn and teachers teach, and to ... more Creative Partnerships aims to change the ways in which children learn and teachers teach, and to support whole school change. Our research examines how schools take up the ‘culturaloffer’madebyCreativePartnerships.Inthisarticle,drawingondatafromsnapshot visits to 40 English schools, we suggest that it has made a difference to school culture and to its meaning -making practices. In many of the schools it has also spread beyond one-off projectstohelpteacherschangetheirpedagogicalapproachmoregenerally.Wefoundacon sistent trend across the schools towards cross-curricular and integrated approaches which in some cases had also produced structural shifts in the use of space, time, budgets and promotionpositions.Weraisesomeconcernsaboutthewaysinwhichperformativeregimes inhibit what some schools are able to achieve, but also point to challenges for Creative Partnershipsrelatingtoassessment,knowledge,andunderstandingsaboutsocialjustice.
European Journal of Higher Education, 2023
Debates around internationalisation-at-home (IaH) focus on the benefits accrued to students from ... more Debates around internationalisation-at-home (IaH) focus on the benefits accrued to students from the integration of internationalisation dimensions in their studies, curricular developments and interactions with international students, but, with scant attention to how these vary in different subject areas. In this article, we focus on the disciplinary experiences and framings of internationalisation from the perspectives of students in two Swedish universities. Drawing on 67 interviews with students sampled across different subject areas, we examine how the disciplinary definitions of study objects and pedagogic approaches filter the students’ experiences and shape their views around IaH, and their ambitions for the future. Our findings suggest first, a discipline-specific set of positionings regarding the nature of subject areas as lenses through which internationalisation is understood. Second, the students hold strong views around the contribution of IaH in strengthening the disciplines themselves. In addition, the student voices paint a dynamic picture of internationalisation positions, not always consistent with disciplinary stereotypes.
Det här kapitlet undersöker lärarstudenters upplevelser av så kallad internationalisering på hemm... more Det här kapitlet undersöker lärarstudenters upplevelser av så kallad internationalisering på hemmaplan (IPH) och hur exempelvis interkulturella och internationella dimensioner inlemmas och kommer till uttryck i undervisningen.Den svenska högskolan har en historia av att arbeta proaktivt med internationaliseringsfrågor, men det har ofta kommit att förstås som en fråga om mobilitetoch utbyten av olika slag. På senare tid har även IPH lyfts fram som en alltviktigare internationaliseringsambition för landets lärosäten (SOU 2018:3). Idetta kapitel analyseras intervjuer med 23 studenter från olika program inomlärarutbildningens område. Resultatet visar att även om studenterna resonerarmycket insiktsfullt om såväl interkulturella kompetenser som färdigheter är deinternationella dimensionerna de mött i sin utbildning starkt begränsade. Lärarutbildning som kunskapsfält uppfattas i mångt och mycket som en utbildningorienterad mot den nationella sfären och det påverkar hur studenterna möter de...
Learning as a lever for change : delivering improved care through the activity of General Practic... more Learning as a lever for change : delivering improved care through the activity of General Practice tutors
Acknowledgements Preface 1. Why is it Important? The Story So Far 2. The Nature of the Interdisci... more Acknowledgements Preface 1. Why is it Important? The Story So Far 2. The Nature of the Interdisciplinary Field and its Development 3. A Global Overview: Legacies and Inertias 4. Scale, Space and Place with Reference to the USA and the World of Small States 5. National and International Educational Development 6. Europe: Issues and Comparisons 7. Sub-Saharan Africa: Legacies and Innovations 8. Rising Stars: Brazil, Russia, India and the People's Republic of China (The BRIC States) References Index
Austerity and the Remaking of European Education, 2019